A Critical Review of the Women's Property Rights in Kenya
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Right of property
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Right of property
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Author : Susan Deller Ross
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 0812200020
According to Susan Deller Ross, many human rights advocates still do not see women's rights as human rights. Yet women in many countries suffer from laws, practices, customs, and cultural and religious norms that consign them to a deeply inferior status. Advocates might conceive of human rights as involving torture, extrajudicial killings, or cruel and degrading treatment—all clearly in violation of international human rights—and think those issues irrelevant to women. Yet is female genital mutilation, practiced on millions of young girls and even infants, not a gross violation of human rights? When a family decides to murder a daughter in the name of "honor," is that not an extrajudicial killing? When a husband rapes or savagely beats his wife, knowing the legal authorities will take no action on her behalf, is that not cruel and degrading treatment? Women's Human Rights is the first human rights casebook to focus specifically on women's human rights. Rich with interdisciplinary material, the book advances the study of the deprivation and violence women suffer due to discriminatory laws, religions, and customs that deny them their most fundamental freedoms. It also provides present and future lawyers the legal tools for change, demonstrating how human rights treaties can be used to obtain new laws and court decisions that protect women against discrimination with respect to employment, land ownership, inheritance, subordination in marriage, domestic violence, female genital mutilation, polygamy, child marriage, and the denial of reproductive rights. Ross examines international and regional human rights treaties in depth, including treaty language and the jurisprudence and general interpretive guidelines developed by human rights bodies. By studying how international human rights law has been and can be implemented at the domestic level through local courts and legislatures, readers will understand how to call upon these newly articulated human rights to help bring about legislation, court decisions, and executive action that protect women from human rights violations.
Author : Birgit Englert
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1847016111
Are women's fragile land rights in Africa being eroded in a period of privatisation and land reforms sponsored by the World Bank? Changing global employment and trade patters and the HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected women in particular. A complexity is that women's and men's interests within households are both joint and separate, yet many land reform programmes are based on the notion of a unitary household in which resources benefit the whole family. Today new land market opportunities also tend to put women at a disadvantage, just as they were under colonialism. Women's secondary rights to land are being extinguished. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land.
Author : Patrick McAuslan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 1134616287
Land Law Reform in East Africa reviews development and changes in the statutory land laws of 7 countries in Eastern Africa over the period 1961 – 2011. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 sets up the conceptual framework for consideration of the reforms, and pursues a contrast between transformational and traditional developments; where the former aim at change designed to ensure social justice in land laws, and the latter aim to continue the overall thrust of colonial approaches to land laws and land administration. Part 2 provides an in-depth and critical survey of the land law reforms introduced into each country during the era of land law reform which commenced around 1990. The overall effect of the reforms has, Patrick McAuslan argues, been traditional: it was colonial policy to move towards land markets, individualisation of land tenure and the demise of customary tenure, all of which characterise the post 1990 reforms. The culmination of over 50 years of working in this area, Land Law Reform in East Africa will be invaluable reading for scholars of land law, and of law and development more generally.
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Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Sex discrimination against women
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Author : Anne Marie Goetz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135911061
Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s representation from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance. But getting women into public office is just the first step in the challenge of creating governance and accountability systems that respond to women’s needs and protect their rights. Using case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume consider the conditions for effective connections between women in civil society and women in politics, for the evolution of political party platforms responsive to women’s interests, for local government arrangements that enable women to engage effectively, and for accountability mechanisms that answer to women. The book’s argument is that good governance from a gender perspective requires more than more women in politics. It requires fundamental incentive changes to orient public action and policy to support gender equality.
Author : Marjolein Benschop
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Housing
ISBN : 9789211316636
Author : Kivutha Kibwana
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Women
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Author : Mary Hallward-Driemeier
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821395343
This book provides compelling evidence from 42 Sub-Saharan African countries that gender gaps in legal capacity and property rights need to be addressed in terms of substance, enforcement, awareness, and access if economic opportunities for women in Sub-Saharan Africa are to continue to expand.
Author : Dennis P. Garrity
Publisher : World Agroforestry Centre
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Agroforestry
ISBN : 9290591846